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A No BS Guide to Getting Rid of Your Back Pain!

Marcel Gagné
6 min readNov 16, 2020

Let’s start with my tragic backstory.

I suffered with crippling back pain for more than twenty years. I’m talking about being out on my back, unable to drive, barely able to walk, or work. I spent every moment trying to deal with the pain while doing my best to lead something resembling a normal life. Sometimes, I’d spend a few days in bed loaded up with painkillers and muscle relaxing drugs to get rid of it. Every few weeks, or, if I was lucky, months, my back would go out, and the entire process would start all over again. In between these events, I visited my doctor for advice, and had regular visits with a chiropractor, hoping that perhaps, this might help me get extend the time between when my back would invariably fail me again.

All this to say that I know your pain is real. I understand that it hurts . . . that you hurt. I know it’s not ‘just in your head’. Now, unless you have an actual physical back injury (a disc fracture or some other disease), I have a solution for you.

Nearly 25 years ago, I told my wife that I was done with back pain. I told her that I was never going back to a chiropractor and that I would never again spend days on my back in pain. I was going to cure myself. Needless to say, she was a tad skeptical. To be honest, I still don’t know what put all this in my head at that time, but…

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Marcel Gagné
Marcel Gagné

Written by Marcel Gagné

Writer and Free Thinker at Large. Ruggedly handsome! Science, Linux, & technology geek. The Cooking With Linux guy. Opinionated. Loves games, food, and wine!

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